The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-25
HIS RECEPTION AT KINGSTON.
The Irish Editor Attacked by a Mob Of
Roughs In the Streets.

The Irish Editor Attacked by q Mob OF
Roughs In the Streets.
KINGSTON, Ont, May 2O.-Fifty miles out
from here the Kingston Reception Com
mittee met the train and returned here
with the party. As the train slowed up at
the station on the place D'AEmes, it was
sembled. As Mr.. 0'Brien stepped
much talked of, Kingston, the derry of
Canada as 1t is called. Kingston has
population of $1,000, of which 1000 are
Catholics. There are only eight policemen,
and all Of them, in command of Chief
surprise of Mr.. O'Brien and rest
of the party, not dissenting
voice was heard in the storm of cheers
which arose as Mr.. O'Brien entered the
carriage. The party were driven to the
Burnett House, where crowd assembled
sand cheered the editor. Battery "A' of
the Dominion Regular Artillery CORPS,
were held in their armories for
emergencies, besides a large number
of special constables and the ordinary po-
lice force, arrived az the skating rink
where the meeting was held; crowds, all
O'Brien sympathizers, were found gathered
around the building and along the side
walk. Policemen, armed with revolvers,
body to block the entrance to the hall.
The street, for all the world like Bay
street, Toronto, where the attack on O'Brien
was made, was worse, because, in addition
to broken stones, bricks were scattered
over the surface where new buildings were
being erected. The audience numbered
about L. 200, and was very similar to that
of the Ulster tenant farmers, whose Gus
tom it is to listen rather than applaud.
Mr.. O'Brien, in his opening remarks, won
at once the Ulster protestants, who were
listening, and who form a large section
of the population, when he asserted that
the Orange farmers in the North of Ireland
were as much oppressed as the
Catholic farmers, and that Lord Lans-
doTne was championing the cause
of those despotic landlords who were
causing this oppression. "My mission"
he exclaimed, lis not to stir up strife, but
to blend the orange and the green"
This sentiment at once won over the de-
scendents of the Ulster farmers, and they
cheered heartily as anybody else,
again when he said: I'VE will so humil-
his murderous policy in Ireland as to make
Orangemen as well as Nationalist at least
believe that there is only one Lord, HE
who rules above the cedars and the stars
Among other things Mr.. 0Brien said: II
believe that the few misunderstanding
which have arisen between the Protestant
and Catholic Irishmen of Canada
will soon pass away. Thank God,
they are rapidly passing away and 1 could
not clip thinking, when 1 heard to-day
that Kingston was known as the DERRY of
Cinada.' that perhaps the name was
pl usel, for in the words Of the
I'D song, to-day Derry Is our own,
boys Lcheersl and the member for Derry,
" 4fT rfh Ia 0f he Last
'ish NatiOnalis!s living. Renewed ap-
piaule. l am convinced that the time is
ming fast when the Protestant tenant
farmers will admit, with grateful hearts,
that all the security and happiness they
epJoy is due to the struggles of the
National League in Ireland" Applause.
TIE unex pected and somewhat ominous
calm was now for the first time broken. At
$50 o clock, when Dennis Kilbride began
his statement the first noise was heard
outside the nall, where several hundred
men and boys collected, crying: God
save the Queen" and grooming for O'Brien.
Every cheer which went up inside
the hall was answered by loud
roar and angry response from without.
The crowd outside was now swollen to i'm
meDse proportions. The meeting was
brought to an end by a few remarks from
Chairman J. J. Behan, who told the audi
ence to go home peaceably. Then the
people started to go out, Mr.. o. Brien being
in the rear. O'Brien's friends hurried him
to the 'front.'
He stepped on the sidewalk wearing, as
usual, a tall hat. The moment the Orange
men on the opposite side Of the street saw
him they raised savage yells and cries:
There he isl and rushed across the street.
Broken stones and cobble stones began fly
ing like hail, and women screamed and
general confusion Teigned. sob, they re at
~, Ofprfar irao Of
full regret more than anger.
eyes, yes" roared the mob. Where he
is; drag him out here on the street. Kill
him, choke him, Tear him asunder," and
they almost burst through O'Brien's body
guard, which consisted of American special
correspondents and local officers of the
National Leage. A man changed hats with
Mr.. O'Brien, as that worn by the latter fur
nished target for the mob, and as the party
doubled into Wellington street another
shower of bricks and stones came crashing
through the crowd. Mr.. O'Brien and his
friends bent their heads, but received mis-
siles on the body. G. F. Kellogg, the
]. NJ. Wall, the representative
Of the Associated Press, caught
Up with Mr.. O'Brien just on the stoop
leading to the house of John Newman, q
Protestant, on Midway street, between
William and Johnston streets. The doors
were opened, and shower OF missiles again
came across the street. The crowd surged,
and Wall and Kellogg were flung
to the ground, and O'Brien disap-
peared evidently into Newman's house,
but up to the present time
nobody is certain Of this, for no one really
knows where he is. The door to Newman
house is barred lightly. Wall and KEEL
logg, with ]. ]. Behan, Thomas nlwain
and ]. ]. Conwell, of the Chicago News,
rushed around through the vinegar works
on Ontario street, for the purpose
of getting into the house by
the back entrance. The mob, however
intercepted them and they had to fly for
their lives. The mob next rushed to the
Burnett House thinking o. Brien was there
shouting, ITO hell with home rule" "kill
him." Although Mr.. O'Brien was not
there they fired volleys Of stones at the
windows, then groaned and yelled to theil